![A Glance Away: A Novel [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/783/578/1695578783.0.m.jpg)
A Glance Away: A Novel [Signed]
by John Edgar Wideman
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. First Edition, stated. Octavo (20.8cm); publisher's dust jacket; boards in red-orange cloth with black and gilt lettering to spine; blue topstain and endpapers; [vi],186pp. Price-clipped jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow tears at top back and some light cockling... Read More
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![The Homewood Trilogy: Damballah / Hiding Place / Sent for You Yesterday [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/196/088/1602088196.0.m.jpg)
The Homewood Trilogy: Damballah / Hiding Place / Sent for You Yesterday [Signed]
by John Edgar Wideman
New York: Avon, 1985. Very Good. New York: Avon, 1985. Stated First Avon Printing, January 1985 . Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; vii,[5],531pp. Minor shelf wear to wrapper extremities, textblock lightly dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound, free of spine crease. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. First omnibus edition of the complete trilogy,... Read More
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Original Unused Pictorial Receipt
by A. Finke's Widow
San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, 1911. Fine. San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, n.d. but after 1910. Pictorial receipt (17.5x21cm) printed on blue stock with printer's slug of Schmidt Lith. Co. Very slightly darkened along margins, else a Fine example. Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E. Schraubstadter... Read More
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Platon und die Formen des Wissens
by [Plato] Wolfgang Wieland
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. Near Fine/Very Good +. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white and yellow; 339pp. Minimal shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Quite uncommon, especially in dust jacket.
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The Night Trilogy: Night / Dawn / The Accident
by Elie Wiesel
New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Near Fine/Very Good+. New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($15.00); [2],317pp. Minute shelf wear, remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Some Distinguishing Characters of the Extraordinary and Ordinary Ministers of the Church of Christ, Briefly Considered, in Two Discourses delivered at the publick lectures, in Harvard-College, November 12th and 19th. 1754. After the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's preaching at Cambridge
by Edward Wigglesworth
Boston: Thomas Fleet, 1754. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Thomas Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, 1754. First Edition. Small octavo; removed; 34pp. ([A]-D4 E1, lacking half title, otherwise collated complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Small shallow loss across title page top margin affecting title with loss of text (supplied by Evans), brief soil... Read More
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An Essay for Reviving Religion. A sermon delivered at Boston, before the Great and General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, May 30th, MDCCXXXIII. Being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the province
by Samuel Wigglesworth
Boston: S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, for D. Henchman, 1733. Very Good. Boston: S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, for D. Henchman, 1733. First Edition. Octavo; 20th century cloth tape over stiff marbled card, typescript label mounted to upper cover; [2],36pp. [[A]-E4]; typographically decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. Lacking half title... Read More
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![Platon [Bd. I: Leben und Werke; Bd. II: Beilagen und Textkritik]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/689/290/1508290689.0.m.jpg)
Platon [Bd. I: Leben und Werke; Bd. II: Beilagen und Textkritik]
by [Plato] Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1920. Very Good. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1920. Second Edition. Two volumes; thick octavos; publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth; v,[3],767; [4],445pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, hairline crack to Vol. I front hinge, Vol. II rather toned along spine and margins, both textblocks significantly browned due to inferior paper quality, later (1960) ownership signatures to front free... Read More
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![Poems: 1943-1956 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/465/151/1699151465.0.m.jpg)
Poems: 1943-1956 [Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard Wilbur
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (15s); 136pp. Jacket margins rather worn with long closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not approaching text, spine panel toned, corners bumped, scattered foxing to textbook, uneven offsetting to... Read More
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![The Third Figure [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/418/1371418430.0.m.jpg)
The Third Figure [Inscribed and Signed]
by Collin Wilcox
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; [8],182pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, spine panel rather sunned, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good and sound. "A Red Badge Mystery Novel." The author's second book, featuring... Read More
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![[Broadside] The Old Time News. The First Steam Locomotive and Passenger Train ever Run in America](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/199/1711199920.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] The Old Time News. The First Steam Locomotive and Passenger Train ever Run in America
by [Railroads; John Bull] John Wilcox
Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Good. Chicago: Published by John Wilcox, the Veteran Rail Road and Steam Boat Agent of America, 1876. Illustrated broadside (31x36cm) featuring illustrations of both the first English and American steam engines. A few small nicks to edges; folds; vertical split down center... Read More
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The Mode in Hats and Headdress
by R. Turner Wilcox
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Reprint. Quarto (11.25" x 7.25"); xiv, 332pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a few tears and chips along edges and at spine ends with some adjacent creasing, along with fading to spine, scuffs and smudges... Read More
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After Berneval: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
by Oscar Wilde
London: Beaumont Press, 1922. Very Good +. London: Beaumont Press, 1922. Limited Edition of 475 copies on handmade paper, this being #460. Octavo. 65 pp. Cover and illustrations by Randolph Schwabe. Tan cloth spine over illustrated paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; woodcuts to endpapers. General soiling and toning to boards with a touch of shelfwear. Binding... Read More
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The Cabala
by Thornton Wilder
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Good +/Very Good -. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition, first issue with "doctors." for "doctors," on p. 186, "conversation" for "conversion" on p. 196, and "explaininn" for "explaining" on p. 202. In married Third Printing dust jacket, with $2.50 price intact on flap and "3rd Large Printing"... Read More
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The Unerring Instinct
by Thornton Wilder
New York: American Brotherhood The National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1948. Very Good. New York: The National Conference of Christians and Jews, [1948]. Presumed First Edition. Quarto (28cm); 12pp. Tall typescript pages; staple-bound. Binding sound. Slightly bumped and toned along edges; otherwise clean. Endsheets and interior pages likewise toned but clean. A Very Good copy of this... Read More
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![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/014/1616014973.0.m.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed]
by Isabel Wilkerson
New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc, 2010. Very Good. New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2010. Reprint. Signed by Isabel Wilkerson without inscription at title page. Octavo. 622 pp. Photo-illustrated wraps. Wear to edges; smudging; creasing and curling to corners. Binding sound. Smudges to edge of text block; interior else... Read More
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![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed Bookplate Mounted in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/656/359/1616359656.0.m.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed Bookplate Mounted in]
by Isabel Wilkerson
New York: Random House, 2010. Very Good +. New York: Random House, 2010. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; x,622pp.; Light shelf wear, "Signed" sticker to upper jacket panel, corners nudged, compliments bookplate to front free endpaper from State Farm's Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award Dinner, May 16, 2012.... Read More
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![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/783/036/1722036783.0.m.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [Signed and Inscribed]
by Isabel Wilkerson
New York: Random House, 2010. Very Good +/Near Fine. New York: Random House, 2010. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; x,622pp.; Light shelf wear, corners nudged, tail of spine bumped, but a Very Good or better copy overall. Signed and inscribed by author on title page and owner inscription to... Read More
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![The World of Edward Gorey [Signed by Gorey]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/039/475/1689475039.0.m.jpg)
The World of Edward Gorey [Signed by Gorey]
by [Edward Gorey] Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Fine/Fine. [New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [1996]. First Trade Edition. Small square quarto (20.5cm); publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 190pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Signed by Gorey on title page.
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A Sermon, Preached May 11, 1785, at the Ordination of the Reverend Joseph McKeen, to the Pastoral Office over the First Church of Christ in Beverly
by Joseph Willard
Salem, MA: Samuel Hall, 1785. Very Good. Salem, MA: Samuel Hall, 1785. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2]-54pp. ([A]-G4, lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete). Old remnants of spine leather, very faint foxing to textblock, else a Very Good, fresh and sound example. Ordination sermon delivered by the President of Harvard Joseph Willard (1738-1804). Joseph McKeen would... Read More
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No Experience Necessary
by Charles Willeford
Chicago: Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1962. Very Good. Chicago: Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (16cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained orange; 190pp. Light shelf wear, most notably at spine crown, front hinge starting, textblock a bit toned as usual, else Very Good. Uncommon and early sleaze novel by the... Read More
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The Second Half of the Double Feature
by Charles Willeford
New Albany, IN: Wit's End Publishing, 2003. Near Fine/Fine. New Albany, IN: Wit's End Publishing, 2003. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 329pp. Tiny soil spot to top textblock edge, else just About Fine. Posthumous compilation of short stories, autobiographical sketches, and poetry by the author of Miami Blues.... Read More
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Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
by William Arnett, Louisiana P. Bendolph et al. [contribs.]; Paul Arnett et al. [eds.]
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2006. Near Fine/Near Fine. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2006. First Edition. Quarto. 223 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Blind-stamped black boards. Color photographs throughout. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show very mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.
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Even More Confederate Faces
by [Confederacy] William A. Turner
Orange, VA: Moss Publications, 1983. Very Good +. Orange, VA: Moss Publications, 1983. First Edition. Quarto; 224pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Pale blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better.
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Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism
by William A. Canfield; Werner Spies [intro.]; Walter Hopps [pref.]
Munich: Prestel, 1993. Fine/Near Fine. [Munich]: Prestel, [1993]. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 373pp.; illus. throughout, mostly full color. Very light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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